I noticed that Windows 7 (and probably OSX) can play HTML5 videos in 1080p, but so far Linux based videos don’t. Is there an ETA for HD HTML5 arriving on OpenSUSE?
What video card? And what driver??
well they do and they have done for quite some time.
Html5 is the web standard for embedding and streaming videos not a video’s container or compression standard, There is hardware acceleration for mp4 (h264) in Linux but that depends on the graphic card and the driver, if your card does not support hardware acceleration that’s not the OS’s fault and you can use the cpu to do the decoding. Most graphic cards don’t support vp8(vp9) so webm is usually decoded by the cpu and that is not OS dependent.
You should read this older post in the multimedia thread
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/452884-Multimedia-in-One-Click
ps. there are binary drivers available for both nvidia and amd/ati available you can enable them in yast -> repository management (click add repository)
also add the Packman repository from the community repo’s as that one contains the patented codecs (and set it as default). Without packman opensuse will not decode mp4 videos as they use a patented codec (h264).
This is a Multimedia question and will be moved there. CLOSED for the moment.
Moved from Applications and open again.
According to html5test.com Konqueror supports all the HTML video formats; chromium doesn’t support MPEG4_ASP but supports the others including WebM(V9).
If I’m not mistaken mpeg4-asp is xvid/divx aka h263, I haven’t seen any xvid’s on the net and that format is a obsolete.
I’ve had problems with konqy and js, it crashed way too much to make it usable.
The problems with js have mitigated but it still crashes on some sites. However, that is nothing to do with playing videos but with people trying to be too clever with js.
This is not an openSUSE issue but a Firefox issue.
A simple Google search turns up the following page to enable/force 1080p
http://www.linuxveda.com/2015/06/29/get-1080p-youtubes-html5-player-firefox-linux/
In Firefox, in the address bar, type the following to get to the advanced configuration page
about:config
Click the warning to continue
Then type the following into the addressbar (or search as described in the reference)
mediasource
Double click both of the displayed to toggle to “true”
media.mediasource.enabled
media.mediasource.webm.enabled
Although the reference doesn’t say to close <all> the open browser windows, I always close the entire app after making changes like this and open again.
You can then go to the YouTube HTML5 test page as described in the reference or just open whatever you wish to test.
HTH,
TSU